My PhD thesis research was a dead end, but that’s why it was important.

Unsurprisingly, many — if not most — scientists aren’t great at science communication.

AI is only loosely modeled on the brain. So what if you wanted to do it right? You’d need to do what has been impossible until now: map what actually happens in neurons and nerve fibers.

Opening up science so that all stages of the process can benefit from better interaction and communication and to provide examples for early career scientists writing grants.

Looking at some of the issues around the reuse of scientific data and open a conversation about how to deal with them.

Publons new Review Distribution Index reveals that a small proportion of reviewers do the lion's share of the peer review.

Biologists are posting unreviewed papers in record numbers. Here's a survival guide.

British researchers funded under Horizon 2020 will lose their grants if the UK stops allowing freedom of movement at any point during the length of their projects.

A call on research organizations and their libraries to secure and earmark a share of their acquisition budgets to support the development of scientific publishing activities.

EMBL-EBI’s open chemistry data services combine curiosity-driven science and pragmatic solution-finding for drug discovery.

ResearchGate and Springer Nature have been in serious discussions for some time about finding solutions to sharing scientific journal articles online, while at the same time protecting intellectual property rights.

Analyses on the Microsoft Academic Graph to understand the changing nature of science over the course of the last century.

Back in 2008, Jeffrey Hall said "recent applications from our lab have had their lungs ripped out, often accompanied by sneering, personal denunciations."

A browser extension that finds free scholarly full texts, metrics, and provides quick citation and sharing links automatically.

Comparing Google Scholar, ResearchGate, Mendeley, and ResearcherID.

1 experiment. 1,011 people. Here's the full list of the legion of the unsung.

John Giannandrea, who leads AI at Google, is worried John Giannandrea, who leads AI at Google, is worried about intelligent systems learning human prejudices.about intelligent systems learning human prejudices.

Academic publishers in general and Elsevier in particular have a reputation for their ruthless profiteering, using professional negotiators pitting hapless librarians against their own faculty.

An audacious Chinese entrepreneur wants to test your body for everything. But are computers really smart enough to make sense of all that data?

Opinions are divided on whether the surge in popularity of pre-prints represent a field-wide disaster or the coming of a populist revolution.

Knowledge Lab project to investigate programming features and data science environments.

Organization and presentation of visual information in the scientific literature.

Is your resolution for the new academic year to publish more? Here, 16 scholars give advice on pitching, editing and writing – and dealing with negative peer reviews.

After almost 25 years since Stevan Harnad’s “subversive proposal“, now, finally, scholars and the public have a range of avenues at their disposal to access nearly every scholarly article.

Why is the one federal agency dedicated to revealing the unknown to humankind so difficult for many journalists to penetrate?

As research and editorial processes become increasingly open, scientists and editors need to be proactive but also alert to risks.

I was reminded today about the wonderful history of Nature in it's claim that it would make all papers reporting a new genome sequence freely and openly available.

The perceived and actual barriers experienced by researchers attempting to do reproducible research.

After almost two decades, these developments give hope that scholarly articles will finally be freed from their paywalls.

They’re a part of every career, and being upfront about them can help put things in perspective.